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Treasure Map

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, : Scry 1. Put a landmark counter on Treasure Map. Then if there are three or more landmark counters on it, remove those counters, transform Treasure Map, and create three colorless Treasure artifact tokens with ", Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."

Also- 23 lands should be plenty! I know that you have some bigger spells but your deck looks like it's mid-range/control enough to get anything you need plus you have the map for some filter.

Lastly- I'd run one
Oath of Teferi
or add an extra
Karn, Scion of Urza
and 1-2
Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
. In a deck like yours, the Oath is a win-more card meaning that when you get it, if you have the Planeswalkers down to make use of it, you're likely already going to win. As such, it's a neat one-of. But get above 8 planeswalkers, and 2 is a little more justified! But that's just my opinion!

Neat deck! It's somewhat similar to mine though I never thought of using
Divine Visitation
which I'll now be looking into :)

1 week ago

Just a heads up, I'd replace your Mountains with
Snow-Covered Mountain
s because Extraplanar Lens doubles mana of ALL lands named. More than likely no one at the table will have snow lands so... Plus this gives your access to
Scrying Sheets
which is something this deck greatly needs, card advantage. Also I REALLY, REALLY think you should be playing
Sarkhan, Fireblood
and
Sarkhan's Unsealing
they are WAY too good for this deck.

2 weeks ago

So back when pirates of ixalan were released no one really played them because of the mana base, at least not in Grixis. Right now the mana base is solid enough to technically make them work.

What I am trying to do right now is creating a deck where all cards fit into the pirate theme while still staying somewhat competitive. It doesn't have to win all the time but having a chance against burn and Teferi would be nice.

As for Lifegain your choices in a pirate theme deck are basically limited to
Fountain of Renewal
and
Navigator's Compass
. Compass is actually not that bad since it let's you fix your mana base without handing aggro decks a free 2 damage. (I am making an exception to the theme rule for Shocklands)

Admiral Becket Brass is a great flavor card but usually when you can hit your opponent with 3 pirates they are either dead or would be if you had dropped a
Dire Fleet Neckbreaker
instead of the Admiral.

The real problem with pirates seems to be that they want to go fast since their late game sucks but they have basically no advantage over mono red or blue other than tribal synergies. And their tribal synergies aren't that great, most of them are not even available until turn 4 or 5.

Like I said the best creatures seem to be the pirates that either have very good tribal synergy or flying. I am considering
Fathom Fleet Captain
and
Forerunner of the Coalition
but they both seem to be too slow.
When you have a lot of treasures getting the city's blessing for an early extra turn via
Timestream Navigator
isn't too hard but I haven't really profited from it that much.

Revel in Riches is an interesting wincon but just too slow. Maybe an option for a more control-based approach. But when you have lots of treasures out it seems to be more viable to cast
Mnemonic Betrayal
, which technically isn't a pirate spell but looks like one. Or use overpriced Cards like Pirate's Prize that create more treasures.

With all that knowledge I still can't figure out a decent pirate deck, am I missing something? I am aware that you got to concentrate on some mechanics to make them work but I am not sure on which ones.

I really want to make pirates work before they rotate out and possibly never return to Standard.

Lastly, and only because you're running the full slew of Traxos and Djinns, may I suggest
Prying Blade
for some extra artifacts/damage/mana ramp? :) It also gives you extra treasures for
Treasure Map
Flip.

This is my deck- though it's less above the curve focused than yours for sure, it might give you a few more ideas! https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/clockwork-angels-artifacthistoric/

Treasure Map occurrence in decks from the last year

Standard:

All decks: 0.82%

Red: 0.52%

Modern:

All decks: 0.01%

Commander / EDH:

All decks: 0.06%

U/B/R (Grixis): 0.07%

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